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Richard W. Schramm, Director
E-mail: richard.schramm@abc-usa.org

NEW LIBRARY DIRECTOR APPOINTED FOR AMERICAN BAPTIST
HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The American Baptist Historical Society (ABHS) has
announced the appointment of Dr. Stuart W. Campbell as the
new director of its Samuel Colgate Library in Rochester,
N.Y., effective April 25.

Campbell will be responsible for the operation of the
library, the largest and premier collection of Baptist
materials in the world. He brings to the position 18 years
of experience as head of archival departments at Clark
University and, more recently, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's
Medical Center Archives.

"I feel extremely fortunate to be able to hire someone
with this quality and depth of experience," said Dr. Deborah
Van Broekhoven, director of the ABHS.

Campbell has worked closely with faculty to make rare
books and manuscripts available to students, and with alumni
to collect oral histories. At both Clark University and
Rush Medical School he helped research and organize
centennial celebrations. Recently he was the invited
keynote speaker for the University of Illinois College of
Medicine (Rockford) Research Forum. He is a member of the
Caxton [rare book] Club, the American Association for the
History of Medicine, the Organization of American Historians
and the Society of Medical History of Chicago, of which he
was president 1997-1999.

After graduating from Kenyon College Campbell
completed doctoral work in history at the University of
Delaware. A Hagley Fellow, he holds certificates in
archival and records management from the Modern Archives
Institute and from Case Western and George Washington
universities.

Campbell has indicated an interest in enlarging the
Samuel Colgate Library's Web site, as well as participating
in the intellectual and spiritual life of the Colgate-
Rochester/Crozer Divinity School (the seminary community in
which the ABHS-Samuel Colgate Library is housed) and the
American Baptist Churches of the Rochester-Genesee Region.

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